Rise of the Night

Part 9: Evil Unleashed

     Amery was the first one up the next morning. She didn't have any type of nightmare, she was just very restless. She walked out of the house and walked down the hill. As she laid back in the grass that was still partially covered in morning dew, she thought about something she hadn't thought about in a while, her "family". Mya had already told Amery what Alicia had done to hide her, but she still wondered what kind of memories replaced the ones they had lost of her.

     Amery sighed; she didn't like being the youngest. Everyone had some sort of job to do, but right now she just watched. She drew pictures of things for them, big deal. That didn't even happen very often anymore. She felt so useless.

     "Baby girl don't think like that." Amery heard a woman's voice say. She jumped up and turned around to see the same woman she had drawn as her and Mya's mom.

     "Mommy?" Amery asked. The woman smiled at Amery and nodded.

     "Do you remember my name Amery?" The woman said.

     Amery shook her head and frowned a little.

     "I'm Queen Evangaleen." she said. Amery, realizing she was being rude, curtsied to the queen standing in front of her. "Amery, there's no reason to be so formal when it's just us two." Queen Evangaleen said smiling. Amery quickly stood back up, slightly blushing.

     Then Amery ran up to hug what she thought was her mother standing in front of her. But as she got right up to the woman, the illusion faded and instead was an evil looking woman smiling at Amery and holding her arms out. As soon as Amery saw the woman, she tried to run, but she was already too close to turn around. The woman grabbed Amery and Amery screamed.

     Inside the house, Amery's scream echoed throughout the halls. Mya was the first one up, running past Alicia and Angelina's rooms yelling as they were scrambling out of bed to follow Mya. All three girls got outside and immediately saw Amery being held captive by an evil woman.

     "Who are you?" Alicia yelled at the woman with deep black hair. The woman just started laughing.

     "Be careful girls, that's Kenalia herself." Cota said from behind them, making all three girls flinch.

      "Cota, where did you come from?" Mya asked.

     Cota cleared his throat and said "That's not to be worried about right now. We need to be worrying about Amery." Cota reminded them.

     "Amery, are you okay?" yelled Mya from the top of the hill.

     Amery was too in shock to respond to her sister. Amery knew she was being held by Kenalia, she had seen her face very often in her nightmares.

     "I have to get away." Amery thought. No matter how hard she tried to wiggle her way out of Kenalia's grasp, her body was paralyzed with fear and possibly magic from Kenalia.

     Mya was panicking on the inside, but she wouldn't dare let Kenalia see that. "What do you want Kenalia?" Alicia yelled.

     Kenalia started laughing again. "Do you really need to ask that question? I came to finish what I started. For years you've lain hidden among all these pathetic humans, trying to escape your fate. But I have finally found you all and now you're mine!" Kenalia said.

     "Leave Amery alone you evil witch!" Angelina yelled. "She's just a young child; she's never done anything to you!"

     "That doesn't matter. She is still part of one of those wretched kingdoms I protected for so long. I only had to protect them because they were weak. In a way, I did them all a favor by destroying their kingdoms. Now they don't have to worry about being attacked." Kenalia said slyly.

     "That was no favor to our people, and we weren't weak. We just didn't see violence and fighting as the answer to every little disagreement." Alicia said. "Are we just going to stand here and chat, or are you actually going to attempt to follow through with your threat?"

     "If that's the way you want it. I was just going to make it as painless and quick for you as possible, but as I suspected, you want to fight. But I am still keeping this little one as my prisoner, so I would be careful how you attack if I were you." Kenalia taunted.

     "Lavender Star Guardian Power!" Alicia shouted.

     "Sapphire Star Guardian Power." Mya yelled.

     "Aquamarine Star Guardian Power." Angelina shouted.

     They all transformed and stood in a battle ready stance. Kenalia simply waved her hand in front of Amery's face and laid the unconscious Amery on the ground.

     Kenalia took one look at the girls and laughed. "Do you really think you can defeat me in such a basic form?"

     "Cota, what is she talking about?" Alicia asked.

     "There is a new power I can give all four of you, but I wasn't sure if you were anywhere near ready to handle it." Cota replied.

     "Cota, give it to us now!" Angelina said.

     Cota nodded and out of nowhere appeared three wrist bands with a star on them. Each were colored coded according to the girls' uniform color.

     They quickly snatched up the wristbands and Cota told them to yell out "Princess Guardian Power Up!" They yelled the phrase at the same time and all three girls' transformations changed. Their skirts were now multiple shades of their color and had a glittery see through fabric on top. Their compacts were also different shapes. Mya's was an eight point star, Alicia's was a flower, and Angelina's was a treble clef. They felt a new surge of power run through their veins and felt even more confident than before.

     "Your appearance makes no difference princesses!" Kenalia yelled to them. "Your downfall is inevitable."

     "Don't be so sure you evil witch!" Mya yelled back.

     Kenalia just laughed. She raised her hands up together in the air and released a blazing beam into the sky. They knew the battle had begun.